Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes:The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas by Nathan LowellAgent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals...

The best short science fiction and fantasy published by authors from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018, collected together for the first time.This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you mi...

Time to Read: about 75 to 90 minutesArmed with only three bullets, an old map, and a score to settle, Bonnie Murtaugh may be in the Splintered Man's territory, but she won't let anything come between her and vengeance.Lost Colony is a quarterly magazine of mid-length (10,000 to 25,000 words) science fiction and fantasy in all of their varieties. This ebook edition also includes an Editor's Note in which the editor explains why this story was chosen for publ...

A house at the edge of a prehistoric valley.A suitcase that can take you to 1980.A payphone that lets you call the dead.Twenty tales from award-winning author Grant Stone, including six all-new stories.From a trip to the supermarket to the edge of everything. From Auckland to London to places far beyond any map. The sun may set before we reach our destination. But don't worry.Everything is going to be fine.

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

The fourth and final segment of the "Everything Zing" series.The Imagine Nation's Greatest Battle...Two Brothers. One Rules. One Falls.

What could George have possibly done – something so disastrous that Miss Spring refused to have the matter even mentioned in her storyline? How will Senor Summer respond to Sister Spring's plot manipulation, and how will he navigate the devastating twist of circumstances?Book Three – Everything Zing: Summer holds those answers and so much more!The June, July, and August rooms in the Hourglass Inn are all due to open. What will their interiors reveal, plus, who will be named...

Book Two in the "Everything Zing" series. Miss Spring takes Zing's throne. The Capital City's drama explodes.What proposal did Father Time make to George and Leap at the conclusion of the Calendar Court…and following his Leap Year gone wrong, what, or maybe who, is Phileap most fearful of facing on the first day of Spring?Discover the wonderful effects of swallowing a twitterflea…and the other secrets and special effects Miss Spring has lined up for her unforgettable openin...

After her brush with the Silver Pharaoh, Verity Fitzroy and the children of the Ministry Seven retreat to London to recover, but adventure always seems to have a way of finding them.With her Uncle Octavius still somewhere out there, Verity is sure the terrifying disappearance of children in the fogs of the capital cannot be a coincidence.The ancient mystery of the Emerald Flame is on the verge of being solved, which will mean an end to life and death as the world has known it...

Houston, we have a problem...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing – the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch – and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical takes us from our world, across the Solar System, and out into deep space to tell the stories of people who had to do the impossible. And do it fast.Featuring stories by Peter F. Hamilton, Yoon Ha Lee, ...

A Gaslight Chronicles novellaLondon, 1860Police inspector Sebastian Brown served Queen and country in India before returning to England to investigate supernatural crimes alongside the Order of the Round Table. If his wifeless, childless life feels a little empty sometimes, that's not too great a price to pay in the name of duty.Minerva Shaw is desperately seeking a doctor when she mistakenly lands on Sebastian's doorstep. Her daughter Ivy has fall...

Book seven of The Gaslight ChroniclesWhen airship engineer Melody McKay's dirigible explodes and plunges her into the yard of a gothic manor, she suspects foul play. With her ankle injured-an indignity far too feminine for her taste-she resolves to crack the mystery while in the care of Victor Arrington, the stuffy-yet-disarming Earl of Blackwell.Ex-Royal Navy Captain Victor runs a tight house and is on a mission to protect his niece and foil a ring of smugglers us...